Ezekiel 44:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:14

Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

Numbers 6:5

“All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

2 Samuel 14:26

And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king's weight.

Ezekiel 5:1

“And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword; use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard; then take balances for weighing, and divide the hair.